Hello Bob.

30 Jun 04 16:00, you wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 BL>    I could not see why anyone would need more than 500MB storage, or
 BL> why anyone would want to watch a movie twice! Especially when it was
 BL> always going to be difficult and slow to record gigabytes... when VHS
 BL> was easy and the technology *altready* existed to double the bandwidth
 BL> on tape. Even when $2,000 DVD recorders came out, I couldnto see
 BL> thepoint. Why spend a dollar on a disc you only used once, when a $2
 BL> VHS could be used a hundred times and last two years?

 BL>  I *still* don't understand the DVD popularity explosion, but I admit
 BL> its' real. Consumers have become dickheads!

DVDs are neat toys, the producers stick extra stuff on the DVD. you often
get comments form the makers of the film and stuff like that and subtitles
and/or soundtracks in weird languages...

soon DVD recorders will be cheap enough to displacce VCRs from that use,
they are simpler mechanically, and so potentially cheaper.

 BL>  Yes... which explains why CD writers are so cheap. The thing I don't
 BL> like about CDs and DVDs is what everyone else seems to like so much...
 BL> their "permanency." To me, CDs are brilliant for music you like to
 BL> listen to many times, and data that will last years (unlike floppies
 BL> which are always a risk). I really can't see a use for DVDs except for
 BL> home movies and how many of those do you need?

Some naughty people copy commercial DVDs for themseles.


Jasen

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